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A Haven for the Abused Child That Treats the Parents, Too

By BARBARA GAMAREKIAN Special to The New York Times ();

December 21, 1975,

, Section Real Estate, Page 48, Column , words

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WASHINGTON There is a hobbyhorse, dress-up clothes, a child-sized kitchen, and wonderful building blocks. Three-year-old Sammy chatters in Spanish as he plays with a wooden truck with real rubber tires; a dark-eyed little girl sits absorbed with a talking doll; and 4-year-old Barbara, enveloped in a yellow smock, is silently intent on finger-painting at a low table.

December 21, 1975

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